[OpenIndiana-discuss] Copying zone from one machine to another.

[DormitionSkete@hotmail.com]

What is the proper procedure for copying a zone from one machine to another?

I have several zones that I've set up on one machine.  I'd like to copy them to another machine, change the networking, and use them.

So, I took one of these zones.  I halted it, detached it, tar'ed it up, and copied it to the other machine.

I realize I could probably have used "zfs send" to do that, but I figured that I probably would have to have somehow mounted the dataset on the target machine, or exported it somehow, and I didn't know how to do any of that.  I'd like to know, though, but that's not the main question.

So, I have this tar'd up zone on the target machine.  I've untared it.  I thought that, theoretically, I should be able to attach the zone, and then clone it so cloning process will set it in a state that I can zonecfg to change the network card (set physical=newcard.vnic), and when I boot it, that it will make me reconfigure the networking.

I'm running into a problem attaching the zone, though.  

I try (fake names because I'm writing this from a different machine):

zonecfg - myzone
create -a /zones/myzone
info                                   -- shows everything fine.
exit


zoneadm -z myzone attach     -- fails, saying it has to be a mounted dataset.  No matter what I try, I can't get it to attach.


I was halfway thinking of just creating a zone with the same name, installing it, booting it, configuring it, halting it, and then copying the original zone on top of it, and seeing if that would allow me to clone it -- but I'd really like to know the *right* way to do this.  

If somebody would give me another hand with this, I'd really appreciate it.  I'm so close to being able to bring this whole project to a close...  But this would really be quite helpful.